This paper attempts a theological justification for the right to private propertyor ownership. This I have subtitled, “A Thomistic Onto-Theology of Self-Communicative Ownership,” for our discourse grounds human ownership as aparticipation of the self-giving creativity of the Divine owner. Such a justificationof ownership is also a metaphysical articulation of the true spirit of the creativeeconomy, which should be the theological norm for democratic capitalism,insofar as capitalism aspires to be such a creative economy. This is no blindpraise of any capitalist system, but proposes itself as a normative thesis as wellas a justificatory thesis of capitalism. Hence its title, “First Philosophy ofDemocratic Capitalism As Creative Economy,” for it intends to be a demonstrationof its first principles—first of a creative economy, and by extension also ofdemocratic capitalism insofar as the latter should instantiate such an economy.